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: ··t.,-1.--alrer=:·2«V :· for September, 1946 # .1-H,7>3*i--148•03445•141' '-" .' '-·' 1.-:3,· ' ' .-3, '-r:'-4,• 567 •' i Construction Kinks These Kinks Earned $1 Each. How About Yours? Track Layout Aid the vertical and horizontal lines. Small curves and fancy curlicues THIS template, made to the Lockport, N. Y., it is sold by .L scale of 1". 1'- 0",is useful lumber dealers everywhere and •e•a•li•(•.fix the striping.- I in plotting curve radius when is generally available. The mai making layout designs. It is B 48' i 50' terial comes in panels 4 ft. wide by 6 to 16 ft. in length, and costs Paint Containers lf AILADY'S empty fingernail about a nickel per square foot. 1Vl polish bottles can be used It cuts easily with a coping saw as containers for the small quanor linoleum knife. Roadbed tities of touch-up paint fre- made of it should be sealed with quently needed to cover chipped shellac before painting or add- or damaged spots on rolling ing ballast.-R. B. McCormick. stock. Their use eliminates the Making Chain Look Old 44" need of opening larger containT HAD a piece of fine gold chain ers and cleaning brushes, for a 1 that I wanted to use on an tiny brush is attached to the HO water tower but it had to bottle cap.-R. L. Manor. look old and weathered. Paint 11S•teb:hst:•,te: would have made it much larger, rrHE•o•••r•y53'3makand it wouldn't plate in old hypo divider in a sheet of celluloid. -Thomas G. Coz. Metal Roof Ribs T 7ARNEY stamped metal roof cars, hoppers, and gondolas. For use on gondola and hopper cars, the ribs must be cut short and as will copper or brass. I finally asked a man who antiques fur- the form of a U, then to solder * ing baggage and mail car steps is to bend the metal into B V ribs can be used to make steel bracing for sides on box greenish cast to gold, brass, or copper. The coating doesn't rub ·5. ·,the,-JoI.042 · Diesel Switcher Wheels iodine. I did so and it works beautifully, imparting an ancient niture and he told me to use an inserted piece onto the sides to make the upper step. An -r• < A036- • A i •7-rl the ends flattened. When ap- A AANY Diesel switchers use plied to the car, the ribs should 1Vl 40" or 44" drivers and _•• be long enough so that they can standard 36" passenger coach 1-8==•• F,--1 • P=-1 - be bent over the car sides. For wheels are therefore not quite easier method is to bend the neat appearance, cut small re- big enough to look right. For metal into the form of the letter cesses so that the bent-over HO gauge motor trucks the use G. The top step then stays in rib ends fit flush with the in- side of the car. Then cover these ger wheels will not only bring it easy to solder or cement the ends with a thin strip of paper. your model nearer to scale but step to the underside of the car. -Earl Jackson. will also allow the use of a -F. Arthur Oehm. HO Roadbed T F yOU'RE having trouble 1 making HO roadbed, try Up- larger gear, if desired.-Richard NadeL Coach Striping Industrial Cable TYPEWRITER ribbon spools 1 with the worn-out ribbon son board, a fiber board %8" /7OOD passenger coach strip- removed and appropriate scale 1 thick, with a hard mottled sur- CJ ing can be done with a well "cable" substituted make interface which is primed with oils sharpened colored pencil. A esting lading for flat and gonand gum so as not to crack or straight edge (ruler) is used for dola cars.-Ernest B. Young, Whodunnit and Whatisit? This mysterious drawing has been knocking around THE MODEL RAILROADER O•CeS for weeks now and no one seems to know exactly what it is or where it came from. Its evident purpose is to make a noise. Who devised this gadget and what is it? 4/IX-3- 9- ....- LAq 1 0 - e ----Erar---m 1=YU - -1-Wurt- - /-r--=> m- --7 am#imj.Jwrtt•ll1 C.FAW //&1\ .0 =3•11 ** \ --7.x x--.3 -; <« 4\\---»---3 -3 X />=S»»5/ C i-\1• A chip. Made by the Upson Co.. can be drawn in freehand. A final coat of flat varnish should of 00 gauge freight or passen- place and the solid top makes